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'Having it All' should not feel like that.

A gentle share with you my friends, some of you who have been fairly impression-ed by Ms. Nooyi's now hugely debated, shared and tweeted interview. I wrote this more than ten days back  (covered in the thick of Parisian indulgences) and delayed posting it lest it be deemed expressed under heavy influences, not to forget the reactionary expression-urge felt almost immediately after reading the interview and (soon after) this blogpost ( http://yummyami.blogspot.sg/2014/07/this-isnt-usual-post.html )  that inspired me to agree and shake me out of my laziness. Since then many more discordant voices have appeared that tend to question, even de-pedestalise Ms. Nooyi's self indulgent version of the 'can't have it all' syndrome. And today when I post this, this perspective is perhaps the only one that takes into account the 'Man's'  position (if he had any) in this conundrum of chest-beating and back-thumping to burp up and spread the slogan of  ' ca...